Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-20
IN "A SMALL WAY.

IN A SMALL WAY.
The News OF the Day Pointedly Para
Eraphed Tor Hasty Readers.
THE hotels are busy.
PUMPKIN pies are popular.
We are having Cleveland weather.
1HE streets should be kept cleaner.
THERE were three cases before His Honor
yesterday morning.
SrEUBENvIILE is talking of an electri'
street railway.
THREE marriage licenses were issued yes
terday in Clerk Hooks office.
SOME people dump waste baskets into
the street. 1t should be stopped.
THE Board of Education meets in regu
lar monthly session this evening
ONE deed of trust was admitted to record
in Clerk Hooks Office, yesterday.
THE old hook and ladder truck has beer
taken down to the Eighth ward.
THE wife Of Henry Bemler, Of Wells
burg, was in the city yesterday looking iol
| her husband.
WEEDS ore growing on the creek. II
water doesn't come soon some one Will Dc
fencing in the land.
IT is very probable that we will not sue,
coed in getting another game OF base Dali
with the Alleghenies.
PEOPLE who doomed winter under
clothing will get little left. There Is
some warm weather coming yet.
A GOOD opportunity is now offered tax
PAYERS to call at the Collectors office and
secure the discount on their city taxes.
THE funeral of the late DR.. j. B. Reed
will take place this morning at nine O'Clock
| from his late residence on South Market
street.
PEOPLE shoQld understand that street
cars only stop to take people on or let them
off on the lower side Of the street. At least
that is the rule.
"a Box OF CASH" closed to good
house at the Grand Opera House, last
evening, having experienced successful
three nights engagement.
THERE is is city ordinance prohibiting
the throwing of waste paper or other rub
bish on the streets, and fine attached for
its non-observanee. 1t should be en-
| forced.
Mr.. JACOB DOERR and Miss Maggie Fiad-
ing were married yesterday mOrningat ST.
Alphonsus Church aud delightful recep-
ton was held in their honor at the resi-
dence of the brides parents last evening.
THE attention of the City Water Board
is called to a leaking fire plug on South
Penn street, Just in front of the base ball
grounds The leak is OF long standing,
and the street in the vicinity is constantly
wet and muddy.
JAMES BIER, the well-known carpenter,
while working upon COleman's new build
ing on South Chspline street, yesterday
made a mislck with Ratchet and almost
severed his left thumb from the hand,
making q wound that will disable him fol
some time.
EDWARD HOWARD, the Ohio man
| who was arrested by Officer Bell on tele-
gram from the ZAnesville, O., authorities
on the charge of stealing lot of harness,
was taken to GAINESVILLE yesterday by Po,
| lice Lieutenant Weaver, Of that city, who
came on after the man.
A SMALL boy named Keyser, who lives
| with his uncle up at the head OfFourteeutt
street, while PLAYING with some compan'
ions in that vicinity, the other evening,
| fell into trench which was being dug to
put in hydraut supply pipe, and several
Of his companions fell IN upon him.
A DOUBLE team of horses IAN off on
Jacob street, yesterday afternoon, and N
attempting 10 make a turn at Sixteenth
the wagon to which the animals were
attached became fastened between a tele-
graph pole and house and they could sc
no farther. No damage was done.
IT is understood that Mr.. Zeke Ball has
purchased OF s. Barrett, Of Rockland,
Mass, the fast trotting mare, Maggie
Mitchell" She is six years old, with a
record of 2:32, made in trial heat at
! Brocton fair grounds several days since.
Mr.. Ball drove her in 2:273, and is conf
dent he can drive her in 2:25. If handled
well, she will make valuable addition to
| Whseling's fast horses. Ieke will be
home in a day or so with his purchase.
In speaking of Rev. K. F. Randolph's
practical talk on the Constitution, at the
| Y. NJ. C. A. parlors, Tuesday evening, the
Steubenyille Gazette says. "Dr. Randolph
is the most versatile minister perhaps ever
| in Steubeuville There seemed TO be no
subject on which he was not posted. His
! knowledge Was not superficial either, but
thorough even to the minutest details.
From politics, art, history, astronomy, lit
erature to music, he can converse as a
specialist. He has a great mind. His
scope is the whole universe Of knowledge,
and he is still the closest of students, and
the midnight oil burns in his library"